On 2007-11-11 14:51, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>>> A non-seekable stream is not all that uncommon in network processing. >>> Right. But what is the relationship to XML encoding autodetection? >> It pops up whenever you need to detect the encoding of the >> incoming XML data on the network connection, e.g. in XML RPC >> or data upload mechanisms. > > No, it doesn't. For XML-RPC, you pass the XML payload of the > HTTP request to the XML parser, and it deals with the encoding.
First, XML-RPC is not the only mechanism using XML over a network connection. Second, you don't want to do this if you're dealing with several 100 MB of data just because you want to figure out the encoding. >> It is also not always feasible to load all data into memory, so >> some form of buffering must be used. > > Again, I don't see the use case. For XML-RPC, it's very feasible > and standard procedure to have the entire document in memory > (in a processed form). You may not see the use case, but that doesn't really mean anything if the use cases exist in real life applications, right ?! >> This approach is also needed if you want to stack stream codecs >> (not sure whether this is still possible in Py3, but that's how >> I designed them for Py2). > > The design of the Py2 codecs is fairly flawed, unfortunately. Fortunately, this sounds like a fairly flawed argument to me ;-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 11 2007) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
